<div dir="ltr">I've never heard the difference in lossy or lossless file formats. I've downloaded albums from bandcamp and other places in FLAC and in MP3 and in OGG - and they all sound exactly the same.<br></div>

<div dir="ltr">Well, since America makes up 35% of the world marketshare when it comes to buying music, (more than any other country - in fact, more than any 2 other countries combined) - then Americans would probably be a pretty good source of defining "Mainstream".<br>